[Zope-dev] Calling DTML methods from Python

Hi, As part of ongoing Squishdot work I wanted to make things like standard_html_header available to the showMessage DTML method, which is called from a python method in Squishdot.py. Why do I have to include self as follows? return self.showMessage(self, REQUEST=REQUEST [stuff]) I thought self was automatically passed by python. Why is it not in this case? is this the same reasons why you need the following (horrible) DTML: <dtml-call "someFunc(_,REQUEST,[stuff])"> rather than <dtml-call "someFunc([stuff])"> which would be much nicer ;-) cheers, Chris